Undercover Nerd

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Katelyn's POV:

I wake up and TRY to run into the bathroom. *Try*. Someone is in there. I knock on the door and it opens up right away. Alix is crouching next to the toilet.

"You guys too huh?" She asks in a very hushed tone.

I only nod my head and then I run to the toilet and puke. Soon following Alix does too. About 20 minutes later, we finish throwing up and we walk back to our rooms. I look at the time and notice that it is 5:00. I know I can't go back to sleep so I look around the room thinking of what I can clean up. I see my blue lingerie and clothes thrown EVERYWHERE! I speed walk to try to pick up them up. Then I look and see that there is a picture of Nia. She is standing with two people. An older guy, which I am assuming is her dad and an older woman. They look so happy. I take the picture out of the frame and look on the back. It reads: 'My parents and me, 10 years ago.'

I smile and Skylar starts to stir.

"Hey babe." I whisper because I am pretty sure everyone is still sleeping.

"Hi. What is that?" He looks at the picture in my hand.

"Oh. It is a picture of Nia and her parents." I hand him the picture and he looks at it.

"She looks so cute." I slap him, not too hard but just enough.

"Ouch! Not cute in that way. Cute in the little kids are so cute way." He tries to defend himself, and failing.

"I know what you meant." I lean over and give him a peck on the lips and he gladly returns. We sit there for like 15 seconds just silent. A peaceful and pleasant kind of silence. We hear a loud bang. We run toward the noise that came from Nia's room. The gang meets us here and I open the door. We see Nia under her blankets and someone else on the other side of her window. We run over to the window and open the door.

"Who are you and what are you doing?" I ask since I was the one who opened the window.

"I'm Sam and I need to talk to Nia." He asks out of breath probably from hanging from the tree in Nia's backyard.

"Well she is still sleeping, so come on in and we can hang out." Oliver suggests.

"Okay." Sam climbs through the window and jumps to the floor, very quietly. We walk through Nia's room to the hallway and then down the stairs to the movie room.

"So Sam, where did you grow up?"

"England."

We all turn our heads toward Theo. He makes a look and then something clicks.

"Sam Bryan?" Theo looks at him straight on the eyes.

"Yea. Theo James?"

"Bro!"

"Hey man." They do the 'guy hug' thing and sit back down.

"What just happened?" Skylar asks while looking while turning his eyes from Theo to Sam.

"Oh, we grew up together back in England, along with Nia. I moved away and came here. Sam and Nia stayed back in England. There was no way I could keep in touch because their parents hated my parents." Sam nods his head.

"We were best friends growing up, and when Theo moved away Nia was devastated and she wanted to spend time with me more. I was out her house all the time, and she was at my house too. Her parents told me stuff about her but the one thing that stuck my my mind was 'Take care of our Nia, she'..." He takes a shaky breath and continues talking. "'She loves you.' So now I am trying to watch out for her and I came here to tell her that. her family didn't die. They ran away." Sam looks down to the floor.